As co-creator of the syndicated radio service "The Comedy Wire" and contributor to the popular radio feature "The Huckabee Report," Pat Reeder has amassed thousands of actual news stories about people doing incredibly stupid things. Using skills honed from his days in corporate training and communications, he breaks these hilarious stories of failure and humiliation down into nine basic categories of dumb mistakes that everyone makes again and again.

The "reverse self-help book," "Nine Hallmarks of Highly Incompetent Losers," hilariously illustrates how everyone from dumb criminals to...